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Reviewer:
Dodsworth the Cat
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November 19, 2023 (edited)
Subject: Walk, Walk, Walk
Subject: Walk, Walk, Walk
Sid Davis knew how to stretch this one. Not only do we get a recap with reused footage at the end, he shoehorned in some stock footage with around-the-world
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cliches about how kids outside SoCal get to school (except the footage doesn't show anyone actually going to school).
How far away is these kids' school anyway? They walk and walk through a residential area then along a business strip.
Oh, and a "bad driver" tries to pick up the two kids. I guess this film is aimed at kids who are too young to be told about those paedophiles that Sid's obsessed with. Sid, you're slipping! And no horrific kid run-downs with a screaming woman covering her face?
Jim and Margie's neighbour at 2:37 have a '61 Chevy Impala. There's a '63 Impala at 3:23 . There are Chevys all over. Even the "bad driver" has a Chevrolet.
The opening music is DUO by Douglas Brownsmith. Boosey and Hawkes OT 2320A AW;26628 .
How far away is these kids' school anyway? They walk and walk through a residential area then along a business strip.
Oh, and a "bad driver" tries to pick up the two kids. I guess this film is aimed at kids who are too young to be told about those paedophiles that Sid's obsessed with. Sid, you're slipping! And no horrific kid run-downs with a screaming woman covering her face?
Jim and Margie's neighbour at 2:37 have a '61 Chevy Impala. There's a '63 Impala at 3:23 . There are Chevys all over. Even the "bad driver" has a Chevrolet.
The opening music is DUO by Douglas Brownsmith. Boosey and Hawkes OT 2320A AW;26628 .
Reviewer:
JSBejma
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January 11, 2015 (edited)
Subject: Where's the Books & Backpacks?!!!
Subject: Where's the Books & Backpacks?!!!
In those days you almost never had homework until high school (except as mentioned below parochial school kids, maybe). On rare occasions a slow kid may
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have had to take a reader home.
A "school bag" (a rectangular usually leather satchel) was taken to school on the first day, loaded with school supplies, and that thing sat under your desk until the last day of school. Kids carried a lunch pail if anything - that's if they had to eat lunch in school. (I generally refused. I was not gonna eat with a room full of kids that I watched picking their noses all day).
After school was for watching TV and going out to play. Walking to school was a luxury. Sun or rain or snow, didn't matter. Way fun. No nasty noisy school busses for us.
Good film!
A "school bag" (a rectangular usually leather satchel) was taken to school on the first day, loaded with school supplies, and that thing sat under your desk until the last day of school. Kids carried a lunch pail if anything - that's if they had to eat lunch in school. (I generally refused. I was not gonna eat with a room full of kids that I watched picking their noses all day).
After school was for watching TV and going out to play. Walking to school was a luxury. Sun or rain or snow, didn't matter. Way fun. No nasty noisy school busses for us.
Good film!
Reviewer:
JayKay49
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January 21, 2012
Subject: Tuckered Out By The Time They Get There!
Subject: Tuckered Out By The Time They Get There!
Judging from the types of neighbothoods, different business districts, mountains, then no mountains, then a dead end street sans sidewalk, then another
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business district, it looks like these kids live in Beverly Hills and walk all the way to school in...El Monte?
And only to find that school was apparently closed that day as evidenced by a change in sun shadow angle of a mere 2 degrees between the time they started that arduous walk down the block(replete with a typical Sid Davis pervert trying to lure them into a 61 chevy) and the time they come back down the street on the way home!
Kids in those days didnt do the "drama" trip with backpacks full of nonessentials; you got 65 minutes to walk home for lunch, watch "Concentration" and walk back to school - so no lunch pail needed since mom was home all day; and elementary school wasn't (for typical kids in those days) that much of an intellectual exercise that one toted books around...at least not public school kids.
Loved this film because it shows some neat LA area neighborhoods and nice weather typical of the area. Great classic cars too - especially that '60 Merc revving out of the alley and the nice '56 Chrysler Windsor in one of the driveways all shiny and no rust yet!
And only to find that school was apparently closed that day as evidenced by a change in sun shadow angle of a mere 2 degrees between the time they started that arduous walk down the block(replete with a typical Sid Davis pervert trying to lure them into a 61 chevy) and the time they come back down the street on the way home!
Kids in those days didnt do the "drama" trip with backpacks full of nonessentials; you got 65 minutes to walk home for lunch, watch "Concentration" and walk back to school - so no lunch pail needed since mom was home all day; and elementary school wasn't (for typical kids in those days) that much of an intellectual exercise that one toted books around...at least not public school kids.
Loved this film because it shows some neat LA area neighborhoods and nice weather typical of the area. Great classic cars too - especially that '60 Merc revving out of the alley and the nice '56 Chrysler Windsor in one of the driveways all shiny and no rust yet!
Reviewer:
Buslady
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March 19, 2008
Subject: Way too innocent for today!
Subject: Way too innocent for today!
Oh very entertaining. How so innocent. Kids marching perfectly. Brother & Sis HOLD HANDS? Where's the have backpacks? And "don't accept rides from
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anyone without your parents permission because the driver might not be very good?" HAH! Were they so innocent in those days that they could not say that it's unsafe cos the person might kidnap them?
Best part, the Crown bus.
Best part, the Crown bus.
Reviewer:
jafran
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September 13, 2005
Subject: All alone?
Subject: All alone?
From the route these children had to take, there were too many dangerous factors to let them go alone. Also, what happened to their school books?
Reviewer:
Spuzz
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September 1, 2005
Subject: Time for Jim and Margie to move.
Subject: Time for Jim and Margie to move.
Let's see, the 'safest' way Mom devised so the kids can walk to school is down the street, up a hill wheres there's no sidewalks, through town, across
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many cross walks, up an overpass, through a tunnel, and then you're there! Sounds safe to me!!!
Look at the background during the cross walk scene at 6:49, you'll see a woman walking backwards. Then again at the 9 minute mark, she does it again!! Very strange.
Look at the background during the cross walk scene at 6:49, you'll see a woman walking backwards. Then again at the 9 minute mark, she does it again!! Very strange.
Reviewer:
Karma Hawk
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April 4, 2005
Subject: I want to ride a burro to school.
Subject: I want to ride a burro to school.
Pretty lame and uneventful Sid Davis film on pedestrian safety. Thiers not a whole lot else to say on this subject. The highlight comes near the beginning
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when the narrator explains the different ways kids in other countries go to school. Lame
Reviewer:
Scott Bot
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September 1, 2004
Subject: marching to school
Subject: marching to school
A relatively tame little film on the proper safety rules for walking to school. Since it's a Sid Davis film, I was expecting to see one of the kids dart
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out in traffic, followed by a shot of the other kid looking on in horror at the (unseen) shot of their sibling getting nailed by a Buick.
The kids walk in perfect step, facing forward with no expressions on their face. I've seen less precise marching in the military.
The kids walk in perfect step, facing forward with no expressions on their face. I've seen less precise marching in the military.
Reviewer:
bcgrote
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August 1, 2004
Subject: LA needs this route!
Subject: LA needs this route!
So, lemme see, there are 3 schools in LA. Jim and Margie leave their home in Hollywood, walk up Beverly Glen, across to Echo Park, then to their school
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in downtown. They do this safely, and within 7 minutes? Wow, Mom, find me a safe route to school!
Also, none of these supposed 'schoolchildren' had books, sweaters, or lunch pails.....
Great fun to see the streets of LA.
Also, none of these supposed 'schoolchildren' had books, sweaters, or lunch pails.....
Great fun to see the streets of LA.
Reviewer:
trafalgar
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March 15, 2004
Subject: and walking, and walking....
Subject: and walking, and walking....
Safety film aimed at very young children on the subject of pedestrian safety. Includes lots and lots of walking.
A Sid Davis production for the Los Angeles ... school system.
A Sid Davis production for the Los Angeles ... school system.
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